Quotes about memory

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

— Susan Sontag

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

— Italo Svevo

Observation is an old man's memory.

— Jonathan Swift

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

— Booth Tarkington

Don't remember what you can infer.

— Harry Tennant

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

— Lewis Thomas

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

— Henry David Thoreau

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

— Jay Trachman

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

— Martin Tupper

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

— Mark Twain

If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

— Mark Twain

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

— Source Unknown

Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

— Source Unknown

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

— Source Unknown

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

— Source Unknown

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

— Source Unknown

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

— Virgil

That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

— Elie Wiesel

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

— George F. Will

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

— Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

— Tennessee Williams

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

— Jon Wynne-Tyson

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Silently, one by one,in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We worry about losing our memory, yet there are things we wish we could forget.

— Michael Lipsey

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

i want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken. the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldnt brighten her own.

— Source Unknown

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.

— Dejan Stojanovic

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not it's twin.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

— Michel de Montaigne

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

— Edward De Bono

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

— Oscar Wilde

The street of dream is not in my mind so that it can get erased. It stays in my heart for more than that circulate inside it.

— mirza sharafat hussain zarafshan